The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1921, Page 1

‘ me | WHISKY SLEUTH ——______ SHUT- IN CORNER ON PAGE 2 TODAY Paste this mail it to in the Bas {iil gust 1 was Tonight fair; me attle’s highest on 4 postcard and weltering friends ii them that Se- temperature Au Lowest was 64, At noon August If it was 64, and Saturday, nderate west- erly winds, SEATTLE SPIRIT DEAD? PAGE 14 On the Issue of Americanism WANDA TALKS TO PALMIST: PAGE 3 There Can Be No Compromise “LET EM STARVE” SAY RUSSIANS: P 9 e Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, > VOLUME 2: “> Greetings! Have you a little Sunshine Smile in your system? eee It’s long line that has no turn- until it sees what's at the nty morgue. eee “I sure sparked that time,” the initiste emerging the charged chair. eee want some desk stockings,” @ dy said at the Bon Marche yester “Desk stockings? ' “Yes, roll tops.” eee It ts hard to unpickle a cucumber. “Better not be sour, says Matt Star eee MATRIMONIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIT @eachville, Ark, Cressed ‘The editor and wife took dinner _ with Hon. Johnson and wife on last . And a fine dinner we had. “Brother Johnson and wife is one of ur best Christians in the church. eee ‘The Sunday bine laws make it unlawful to do anything om Sunday except wait for Monday. eee SIGN IN VICTORIA @. C) CABARET M reach your party by send ‘@ 10-cent messenger,” said long 7 to The Star's telephone op 2 “Do you teach observa nr” | Teacher—“Yes.” ‘ IT wi test the Now, children, shut your and sit still.” (Following this ) inspector made a slow, whistling of and followed with: , children, what did I do?") “For some time there was no rr, but ultimately one little boy out: “Kissed teacher.” eee Song hits of the season are: “When Into the Face of a “Delirtus Tremen Blues.” be said that America has proper appreciation of the higher of life. * ‘Trying to find a new fob every months is good deal like Bhanging seats in a boat. The n who does It most is usually the who finally falls overboard. eee Just as every attic has its past, so every cellar has its futare. owe wt ‘ANTIAL TESTIMONY “You ought to have seen Dr. 1] when he called to see Dolly ‘the other night,” remarked Johnny to his sister's young men, who was ing tea with the family. “I tell “you, he looked fine a-sittin’ along bide of her with his arm—” “Johnny!” face the color of a boiled lobster “Well, so he did,” insisted Johnny, he had his arm—" the mother, whined the boy. “I “John,” said his father, sternly, leave the room.” And Johnny left, crying as he went: “I was only going to say that © fe had bis army clothes on.” , ose Hank Klay says he heard a fel- © low say the good blondes dye young. SPOKANE.—Move started for busi ness men to raise $12,000 to purchase § ground for proposed new $125,000 ad | dition to armory. IN VESSEL’S HOLD DOES BATTLE WITH SNAKE When Customs Inspector Fred McNaughton went down into th hold of the Arabia Maru, docked at Pier 6, Thursday, to look for whisky, he found One long, viciow The snake struck at ons lee He dodged avoid the fangs and subdued the reptile with a belaying pin The snake, when dead, ured nearly five feet in Where it came from or into the hold none snake MeNaugh in time to me lengtty. how it abourd Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 ! TAX T BE C FOR ALL Rich and Poor to Share in Benefits From Reduction Plan BY HERBERT W. WALKER nited Pres» Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— Rich afd poor aliko will share in the benefits of the tax reduction Program approved by the repub- lican members of the house ways A net reduction of $555.000,000 has been agreed upon: of this amount $277,000,000 represents a cut or re peal in the taxes paid only by the rich—the excess profits and sur- taxes, DEMAND MORE REDUCTION FOR LITTLE FELLOW Democratic leaders stil insist a great reduction must be made tn the little fellow's taxes. An effort will probably be made to reduce the por- mal income rate from four to three per cent, Heads of families under the pro- gram, paying the normal income tax. will be given $406 exemption instead of $200 for each child and depend. ent. To encourage bufiding the first $500 any person or corporation re cefven as income from a building or loan association will be tax free. Stamp tax has been abolished on pajent medicines, perfumes and tol- let articles and a five per cent tax levied instead. ‘These taxes will remain ag at pres ent: Inherttance, tmsurance, telephone, telegraph, tobacco, alcoholic spirits. admissions and dues, autos, movies, musical instruments, jewelry and capital stock. SURTAXES ON INCOMES TO BE REDUCED Excess profits taz wi be re pealed as of January 1, 1921, but the corporations will be compelled to y an increase of five per cent in ‘the fat corporation surtax. Surtaxes on incomes above $6,000 will be reduced so that the minimum Will be 32 per cent instead of 65 per cent as at present. After January 1, there will be no eight per cent tax on passenger or Pullman fares or three per cent on freight bills, The extra pennies tax for ice cream and soda water and al! stamp taxes on articles purchased at drug- ene will be eliminated on the same jay. The committee will Complete the tax revision bill Monday, Republican Leader Mondell stated definitely to- day. OR He has called a conference of house republicans for 1 o'clock |Monday afternoon. Should the meas- jure receive virtually complete ap- proval it will be rushed thru the house next week. OLYMPIA.—Tam Gibbs, 11, wins gasped his sister, her| first prize of $15 in state school ex. {kind of testimony. say contest for sixth graders, Irene Robbings, Yelm, took first in ninth grade class, | Meet Our New Reporter Who Lives in Bed! Who ever heard of a newspaper reporter who couldn't run to cov er a murder or a fire; an editor who couldn't sit at a desk and wave his arms wildly or rush into the printers’ composing room now and then and stamp the floor? Answer: Nobody. And so today we of The Star with to call your attention to our reporter-editor, Dr. Frank It lying flat on his back in his home here, gathering news by telephone and writing and editing it on the bed from which he cannot without help arive. He can move only his ands and arms and the muscles of his face. The rest of his body is. paraly inert Dr. Loope has kly de hag named it “Sunshine Jes." It is the “Shut-Ins’ Cor It appears for first today on phe Read it, It’s human. And while you ing it, remember Dr. Loope is 4 shut-in, and a remark able man a agreed to eon duct ¢ Star. ¥ ner.” the arer 2, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGU JST 12, 1921. ~ TWO CENTS I ‘SEATTLE ATRY TO BURN PRIEST HER PRUNE 2 rr x Mrs. Helen Weaver Sewwall, whose deposition exonerates District Attorney Nathan A. Tufts of Middlesex county, | Mass., of divorce trap. charge.’ La BOSTON, Aug. 13-—The Stearns girs employed for the occasion, ef divorce case is only one of many ie |forts were made to obtain hust sues which have been revived in| ney: In preasing his casa, Allen tried legal proceedings by Attorney Ge®-/to show that Tufts laid a divorce eral J. Weston Allen to remove Die jtrap for Captain Charles Eph: trict Attorney Nathan A. Tufts from | Stearns, U. 8. A. in which office. sirl vamp was the bait. But The supreme court soon will ren-|mer Mra Stearns, now Mrs. der its decision. Weaver Sewall, completely exon Allen charges Tufts with mal feasance in office in connection with the “Eden revels” at Mishawupn manor in 1917. He charges that fol-| Stearns, or that he arranged for a lowing a dinner at which prominent | raid in which Stearns was caught movie magnates were entertained by in a Cambridge apartment in 1918. AUTO TOURIST FLOW HERE BREAKS RECORD Tourist travel into and across the state of Washing- ton is much greater this summer than ever before—per- haps 25 per cent greater. It is autos, and not railroads, that are carrying the people. And it is camp grounds, and not hotels, where they are living en route. These are the salient facts developed by a survey of the situation just made by The Star. According to the Tourist bureau brought a 50 per cent decrease to of the Chamber of Commerce, tour |touriat trade. ist travel to Seattle has increased 35} “And autds,” says this member of per cent. the business staff, “seem to have AUTO CAMP RECORDS done the same thing to railroads. I SHOW GROWTH was talking just a few days ago to Josephine Spielbauer, in charge of | 1 Sas feast on a oe the bureau, “shows us an Increase of A . ° cent decrease, but’ now he's ready }50 to 60 per cent over previous |i ete it at 50 per cent.” |summers, according to a report made | Reoorts at the Savoy hotel show by the Pacific Northwest Tourist as- a decrease of 35 per cent in tourist sociation, while boat travel, accord ade during this year's summer jing to the Pacific Coast Steamship | nonths. company, has increased 20 per cent.” we Hotels| and railroad companies, | PORTLAND CLAIMS however, do not present the same| BEST CAMP SITE Auto travel and| Meanwhile, Portland t laying grounds, officials claim to possessing the “best auto gay, are robbing them of tourist!camp in the country.” trade, and their statistics ‘conse-| It charges 60 cents an auto, per quently show decreasing per cents,/10 days’ stay. Telling of ite charma, |rather than increasing. [the Oregonian in a current issue Says lL. EB. Gilbert, ticket agent | says jfor the Union Pacific Railway com. “The munictpal auto camp (pany, “Passengers arriving and de-| grounds has become a university of ldarting from Seattle number less | boosters for Portland and Oregon, than one-half of those with us last | with graduates leaving every day for | summer. nearly all the states of the Union and | “During May, June and July, 1920,| the provinces of Canad passengers in and out of Seattle|high praise of the spitality, |numbered 214,225, while this year|scenic beauties and advantages of |during the same months they reach |this state. A transient population, jonly 90,262." | | According to a member of the/in the attractive tent city at Albina |business staff of the Washington |ave. and Portland bivd., and every hotel, auto camping grounds have (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) public camping to spread | estimated at 1,200 persons, is camped | CITY PROB AHEAD Police to Shake Up City Hospital Of- ficials, Is Prom- ise Police were Friday probing the case of George Halliday, 49, cook, who was slugged and knocked unconscious by « thug early Thursday. Halliday was walking on a dark street when @ thug crept beltind him and struck him over the head with a blackjack. He was robbed of » small amount of change. A blackjack filled with shot was found shortly after in a dark Halliday went to the efty hospital for treatment, where his wound was dreased. HOSPITAL FAILS TO REPORT, 18 CHARGE According to police, the hospital made no report of the affair to them, and no action was taken. Al hospitals, said Inspector Mans Damm, are required to make a re-| NEW ORLEANS, Aug, 12.—Miss ‘The case is similar to the one in path ld the wermen were Wrutallp at] ne Teo Se HF aide tacked on the Everett road a few days ago by three armed and madked thugs, who broke the wrist of one of the women. Roth were badly hurt by the thugs. Police say the city hospital made no report of either case, the thugy mak- Ing an easy escape when police failed to arrive. Police also afiege that the city hos- Pital made no report and made no record of the shooting of Ben Utrich, the gunman who stabbed Patrolman Witttam Donlan a few weeks ago. ‘When members of the press went Co eae ee Dont nan treniem | for his foreasted “terrific battle” to who had been taken there several | “*Y® Mahoney's life. Prosecutor) | Douglas intends to ask the jury to) hours before, were on the recerés. | invoke the death penalty. | | |the 60-yard hurdies for women. up new records to shoot at in many | kinds of athletics. James E. Mahoney's lawyer, Lee; Johnston, began preparations ‘Friday Reporters were told that neither Donian or Utrich had been brought | NERVE OF PRISONER WEAKENING? in. ‘The case was not known. Many inatances of the kind have Mahoney's nerve weakened for a) been brought to the attention of the! short time Thursday night, it was police department in the last year,| said by officials who saw him in his according to Damm, who promises a/ cell. He had come from arraignment complete examination. in Judge Hall's court, where he was eee allowed till next Thursday to make} Another Drive On ['A0S" octock, they say, ne was to Clean Up City) seated on the side of his bunk, most Starting a campaign to clean up of his clothing removed, with a towel wrapped about his head. | |vice in Seattle, police raided a house | i Jat 1926 Terry ave. Friday, arresting | When spoken to, he said the noise of the jail was bothersome. | [four persons and seizing a quantity lof Mquor. Friday morning, however, his com-| posure was restored. } Patrolmen R. K. Holschumaker|to the morgue Friday to view the| |and F. R. Gladwin entered the house | body of Mrs, Mahoney. The total) |by @ side door and found a booge | Humber of visitors reached 2,872 at) |party in progress, they said, Indi.|Doon, marking the third day since | cations led to the belief that the|the body Was allowed to be seen party had lasted all night. According to Coroner William H The raid was made when an tn.|Corson, women slightly outnumber mate of the house reported she had | the men. |been brutally attacked and slugged.| Throngs of well-dressed women, | |She gave the name of Marie Cum. | girls and mothers with babes in their | mings. She is being held as state's | arms stared curiously thru the glass) witness against the alleged operator | top of the case in which the body of the house, who gave the name of | was enclosed. | Blondie Butler, 29. Interest in the body of the slain The woman said Butler assaulted |sunman, killed by a policeman in| |her with @ weapon of some sort,| Ballard Thursday, also claimed a/ |beating her about the head. large share of their attention, | When questioned by Capt. F. C.| Alvin Jorgenson, the expressman | |Collier, Butler is said to have ad-| who hauled the trunk in which was | mitted the attack, Miss Cummings’ |the body of the murdered Mrs, Kate |head was badly swelled and brulsed.| Mahoney, from Mahoney's apart- |She was treated in city hospital, |ment to Lake Union, into which it ‘Two other persons, said to be hab. | was dumped, was in court when Ma litues of the place, giving the names honey was arraigned for the killing of W. B. Woodworth ahd Mrs. W. B, | of his bride. Woodworth, were arrested. Butler is| Jorgenson was one of many scores held on a charge of running a dis-|of people who attended the arraign: orderly house. Woodworth and his|mept. At the conclusion of the pro wife are held on charges of disor-|ceedings dozens flocked to the! derly conduct morgue in the basement of the same | ‘tt Was So Sudden!’ Says Harding’s New Step Ma BY J. F. BEAMAN \(United Press Staff Correspondent) | MARION, 0., Aug, 12.—"We just thought we'd like to get mar- ried—and so we did, And that is the whole story of the “clopement” of Dr. G. T. Harding, father of the president, with Mixes Alice Severns, nurse, as the bridegroom expressed it to United Press here today. was all so sudden, you the new Mrs, Harding than the present, 1 had planned to go to Detroit and see L. B. Sanborn, a canned fruit mer- chant who is a good friend of mine, 1 non second theught, I said to Alice, ‘Better come on and go with me.’ “We can run over in Canada and be marries “It was pretty sudd den that neit' took any fancy clothes. Anyway Mrs. jarding doesn’t care much about things. When we got to Detroit, we found that the Canadian mar- riage law was such that we couldn't get # liertise that day, We—” Harding, who is 7 pointing to his bride, 52— “just thought there was no time better * President’s Father, 76, “Elopes” With His Office Nurse, 52;They’re Wed| #0 we had Mr. Sanborn drive us to Monrve, Mich, “The ceremony was very simple and we left immediately for Marion and here we are, ready to settle down right in the old home—498 Center.” The bride was smilingly hap- pily. Her bridal gown wag ao plain dark suit and very long skirt. Harding also wore « dark suit and an old civil war style army hat, even to the gold braid. When they stepped into the town picture gallery, E. B. Vaill, the photographer, started fuss- ing around about the picture tak- “Shoot right ahead, said. “Let's get this with.” Mrs. Harding has known her husband for 25 years. She has been in his office as helper for the last three years. News of the marriage did not cause even the slightest ripple of excitement here late yesterday Mar e Hard spaper, carried only a brief ory on the second page in its last edition, Dr. Harding's office is on the second floor of the Marion Star " Harding ing over | ing. building. Miss Florieda Batson She holds the woman’s record for in 10 seconds fiat (just try that, Jadies) and at an athletic carnival re- —and set @ new world’s record for) cently in New York she clipped one-|the roaring and crackling in the 4 fifth second off the world’s record she went down the path in nine seconds. MAHONEY MUST HANG, 1S DEMAND OF STATE DETECTIVE LOSES TRIGGER FINGER IN SEARCH FOR TRUNK As a result of a long search for the Mahoney murder trunk, De- tective Martin Cleary, of head- quartefs, lost the first finger of his right han j The finger as amputated in Providence hospital Thursday. When the search first started, Cleary was assigned to the pa- trol boat. He ran a aplinter from a wire cable in the finger. Blood. poisoning resulted and grew steadily worse, culminating in the loss of the finger to save the hand. Cleary'’s condition Friday was Slightly improved, building and viewed the corpse of the murdered woman under glass. The following letter congratulat: ing the police department for its work on the Mahoney case was ad- dressed and sent to Captain of De. tectives Charles Tennant by Prose- cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas Thursday WORK BRILLIANT, | SAYS PROSECUTOR “My Dear Capt, Tennant: “May I add my congratulations to the many that have already been tendered you for your brilliant work on the Mahoney ease. No one knows better than J do that you de- serve every bit of credit you have received “It does not detract from your splendid work, however, to say that there is a lot of credit coming to a number of the faithful and efficient officers who served under your di- rection in developing the evidence. “Chad Ballard, who started the case when it looked like a dead one, and kept plugging at it, Colby and Bell, who voluntered for the hazardous work of diving for the trunk, and all those men who worked so faithfully at the drudgery of tending the out the other angles are deserving of special mention. “These include Officers Peyser, Majewski, Fortner, Yoris, Simonson, Fuller, Bianchi, Barton, Toms, Lan: dis, McNamee and Choch- ran, as well as your able assistant Lieut. Kent. bunch, Please proyd of every one of them," More Troops to Be Sent Into Silesia PARIS, Aug, 12-—Bending adjust ment of the Upper Silesian dispute by the council of the league of nw Uons, reinforcements will be sent there to maintain order, the supreme council decided, it was announced of ficially today, barge and working | E! FIRE IS Priest Is Sle Suspect Held Cal. Murder An attempt was , early Friday to burn to d Father Francis the priest lay sleeping in room of a Catholic church South Park. ‘ Coincidentally, Fath James E. Coyle, dean of Catholic church in Al! was murdered in B ham, Ala. Meanwhile, charges of n der were being prepa against William Hight alleged slayer of Patrick _Heslin, priest of Colma, Cal. lice hi vestigating South Park fire “yatnen sleeping quarters in the chu . port on cases requiring police action. | Florieda Batson stepped out of a/| the 50-yard dash; she runs 100 yards | fired, it is believed, by an ii The whole building was in fl when Father Bebee was a shaft. He sprang from his bed and This New Orleans girl is hanging | for 60-yard hurdies*for women when | narrowly escaped with his life, say, at 2:30 a. m. The church is connected with Brothers’ school. It was almost ly destroyed. Battalion Fire Chief J. W. michael made a cursory ti at the time of the fire and its cause to the work of a fit «ee BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 12.—Rev. Edwin R. Stephen- son, itinerant Methodist ister, was held today charges of murder, follo the slaying of Father Jan E. Coyle, dean of the Catho church in Alabama, and p tor of St. Paul’s church Birmingham. Stephenson, in a statement following his arrest, made it ent that he will claim self-defense, Father Coyle was shot to death he sat on his front porch at the p ish house. The minister surrendered immediately following the shooting. — Father Coyle died an hour later. i Grief over the fact that his daugh 7 jter had married a Catholic, the cere: — jmoney having been performed by. | Father Coyle, was the cause of the | shooting, police said, ar 92) SAN FRANCYSCO, Aug. 12.— William Hightower, 24 hours ago heralded 2s the man who had done the i:uposstole and “discov. ered” the body of Father Patrick Heslin, the kidnaped priest of (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) Wheels of Conference Begin Turning BY A. L. BRADFORD United Press Staff Correspondent * WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-—The wheels of the Washington disarma+ ment and Pacific conference were ac tually turning today. The conclave will get under way November 11, armistice day. The call for.the parley is the first definite pronouncement by any gov~ ernment officially setting forth the {hopes of the world for relief. from the burdens and dangers of maintains ing crushing armaments, Secretary Hughes dispatched the Jinvitations in identical notes to Great Rritain, Japan, France and Italy, The invitation to China differed in jthat it did not contain the argue jments for limitation of armaments, “The staggering burden”, of labor Jcannot be lifted, nor justice, security or peace assured, unless the world powers agree to halt their vast ex: enditures for armament, President > Us g declared in his invitation, Rivalry in armaments, Harding pointed ‘out, constitutes tho greater |part of the “encumbrance «upon en- terprise and national prosperity,” and “avoidable or extravagant exe pense of this nature is not only with» out economic justification, but is constunt menace to the peace of the world.” ‘4 WORLD CALLED ON TO DISARM